> I'm wondering if I can count on the fact that the > chars argument to the characters( ) method will be a > null terminated array?
No, you cannot. > The documentation seems not to indicate either way, > but the fact that the length is passed explicitly > suggests that it is not neccasarily null temrinated. > Still, in the tests I've run, chars[length] has > alwasy been zero That's just an artifact of the current implementation, or the documents you are parsing. > The reason I ask is because I'd like to call > XMLString::transcode so I can place the contents into > an std::string. Make sure you transcode to UTF-8. > If it is and if the char argument is not > guaranteed to be null terminated than I guess I'll > have to make a copy before calling transcode. Why? The transcoder interface does not require this. Do not use XMLString::transcode(), whatever you do, because it transcodes to the local code page, and you have no guarantee that all characters can be represented. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
